| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in international performance |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers? |
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Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index |
| Summary |
Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Africa, North
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Theatre studies -- Morocco -- Algeria -- Tunisia.
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Other performing arts -- Morocco -- Algeria -- Tunisia.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Performing Arts.
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Theater
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North Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlson, Marvin, 1935-
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| ISBN |
9780230358515 |
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0230358519 |
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